Month: March 2019
👓 Why an HTML/CSS First Approach Works for #OER and why #OER Must Work for an HTML First Approach | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)A few years ago I worked with a committed group of volunteers in Erode, India. For awhile I provided a bit of webspace as they learned the simple mechanics of running websites. using chalk to lay out websites We focused on HTMl first. Why? Mainly because we believed it to be the most equitable pathw...
This type of basic digital literacy is essential. Instead of teaching children D’Nealian or the Palmer method of cursive script in grade school, let’s evolve a bit and teach them some basic HTML.
👓 Assumed Audiences | Chris Krycho
Chris Krycho (chriskrycho.com)“The Internet” is far too broad an audience for, well, basically any post I write. My current best solution: “Assumed Audience” headings on posts.
This isn’t a bad idea at all, particularly in a more nascent rising independent web. It may be far too late to attempt this with Twitter and other means of social media however.
📖 Read pages 54-60 of 251 of The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies
📖 Read pages 54-60 of 251 of The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
I’ve seen a few places in the text where he references “group(s) of Japanese scientists” in a collective way where as when the scientists are from the West he tends to name at least a principle investigator if not multiple members of a team. Is this implicit bias? I hope it’s not, but it feels very conspicuous and regular to me and I wish it weren’t there.
📺 Kinesin protein walking on microtubule | YouTube
Extracted from The Inner Life of a Cell by Cellular Visions and Harvard (http://www.studiodaily.com/2006/07/cellular-visions-the-inner-life-of-a-cell/)
hat tip to reference in note 21 on page 221 of The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies.
I’m pretty certain that I’ve seen this or something very similar to it in another setting. (Television perhaps?)
📺 Coal’s Deadly Dust | Frontline | PBS
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the rise of severe black lung disease among coal miners, and the failure to respond.
Just heart-breakingly stupid and senseless. It’s for nonsense like this that we really need some better worker protections in the US. What a screw up over multiple administrations for decades to have something like this happen. Corporations should be held liable for the externalities like these that they’re causing when they ought to know significantly better.
👓 CAA and UTA Settle ‘Lawless, Midnight Raid’ Lawsuit | The Wrap
United Talent Agency and Creative Artists Agency have reached a settlement in their nearly four-year lawsuit over five agents CAA had accused UTA of poaching. Details of the settlement have not been made public, but in a statement provided to TheWrap, UTA’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, said: “The m...
👓 CAA Veteran Matt DelPiano Heads to Cavalry Media to Launch Management Division | The Wrap
Dana Brunetti and producing partner Keegan Rosenberger’s Cavalry Media has tapped veteran CAA agent Matt DelPiano to lead the company’s newly launched division Cavalry Management. Cavalry Media, the finance and production outfit that was established in June 2018, announced on Wednesday that it w...
👓 Matt DelPiano Exits CAA After 26 Years To Launch Management Division As Partner With Dana Brunetti And Cavalry Media | Deadline
Anita Busch (Deadline Hollywood)EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a shocker, and also a great get for Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger and their Cavalry Media. Matt DelPiano, who has been a top agent at CAA and a 26-year veteran of the talent agency, is becoming a partner at Cavalry Media and launching a full-service management company, Cavalry Management.
👓 Notes from the Rep Biz – 2-15-2019 | WhoRepresents.com
At CAA:
Agent Matt DelPiano has left the agency after 26 years to launch a full service management company, Calvary Management. All of his clients are expected to stay with him as he transitions.
At UTA:
The agency has settled its long-running dispute with CAA over alleged agent-poaching that occurred back in 2015. The case stemmed from UTA's shocking hires of five senior agents that decimated CAA's comedy department.
At ICM Partners:
The agency has dropped Celine Dion and initiated legal proceedings against her for an alleged failure to pay commission. It's an unfortunate end for the singer at the agency, who had been representing her for three decades.
Elsewhere:
Longtime agency Stone Manners Salners has renamed itself Artists & Representatives. This comes following the retirement of partner Tim Stone and the elevation of agents Ben Sands and Adrian Pellereau.
👓 ‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Signs With CAA | Hollywood Reporter
The singing and acting breakout was previously without an agency.
Presumably they still represent him. Makes me wonder what they’ll do as his story continues to unfold.
👓 Notes from the Rep Biz – 2-22-2019 | WhoRepresents.com
📺 Evening News 03-01-2019 | CBS 2 Los Angeles
I don’t often watch the local evening news but it was on the TV, so there I was…
👓 XYZ March 2019 | Kicks Condor
So, as a result of the work Chris has been doing in Wordpress, making it easier to post to Indieweb.xyz, I’ve started “rolling up” all the posts by each user on the home page. I’m just trying this to see how it feels. I’m going to try quite a lot of things over the next few months. Let me know what works for you.
